Her struggles to decipher right and wrong, her frustration with her family, especially her alcoholic father, and her difficulty in being able to trust other people make her both endearing and tough. Jenna, however, is the real star of the show. "She speaks her mind and has the kind of courage I wish I had," Bauer says. Gladstone serves as a beacon of morality in a sea of unethical chaos. With a conniving son trying to make a quick buck and a corporate machine that is ready to make a profit at any cost, Mrs. This time around, we find her struggling with the takeover of the company she and her late husband built. Gladstone, the feisty matriarch of the Gladstone dynasty. It was like running into a couple of old friends that you haven’t seen in a long time."
"When I finished Rules of the Road, I didn’t think I had another book in me," Bauer tells BookPage from her home in Brooklyn, "but it was so interesting to revisit the characters and realize there was so much growth. In Best Foot Forward, Jenna is starting her junior year in high school and the family-run Gladstone Shoes is in the midst of a corporate takeover. Struggling with a difficult situation at home, Jenna shines in her after-school job at a shoe store. In Bauer’s latest novel, readers meet up once again with Jenna Boller, the beloved character introduced in Rules of the Road (1998). What do you do when you already have seven best-selling books for teens under your belt, numerous awards on your mantel and an uncanny talent for relating life’s toughest challenges with humor and hope? According to author Joan Bauer, you simply have to put your Best Foot Forward.
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